Wait... the 80's hit THIS HARD?
You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians
Peter Martin
4.9 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Black Codes From The Underground... Is it the seminal modern jazz album of the 80's? Adam and Peter check out the incredible album from early in Wynton and Branford Marsalis' career. How did this album effect you?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Adam, what you know about this? |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, I like this. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, I like this. Come on now. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, |
| 0:33.4 | and you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | Music, Explored. |
| 0:36.8 | Explored brought to you by Open Studio. |
| 0:38.5 | Go to Open Studio jazz.com for all. |
| 0:43.4 | Jazz lesson needs, Peter. |
| 0:46.0 | Are you ready to travel back in time? |
| 0:47.6 | I didn't know we were doing this today. |
| 0:49.0 | This is exciting. |
| 0:50.5 | This is some real music right here. |
| 0:52.8 | I want to surprise you a little bit. |
| 1:27.9 | We're going back to a time called the 80s. Shoulder pads. Man, I am stoked. Gordon Gecko. Winton Marsalis. Hornedrimmed glasses. Wait, to this. Those are things I think about as far as the 80s, right? Is Michael Douglas on this record? Michael Douglas, yes. He could have been. I'm excited. I'm pumped up, baby. Yeah, so today we are listening to Witten, Marsalis' his 1985 seminal recording Black Codes from the Underground. Peter, this might be the album of the decade for the 1980s. As far as hardcore jazz fans are concerned. Right. Are we going to be making that judgment |
| 1:31.3 | today? No, we don't necessarily have to put a pin in that and really lock that down. But |
| 1:36.7 | I can't think of another album from this decade that has probably been more influential on the |
| 1:42.1 | people that came after it. Yeah. You know what I mean? The playing on it really, I think, made the avant-garde in the 90s what it was, like the straight-ahead spurners, what they were, which is funny because I'm not sure if that's what the intention was for this album at all. No, I don't think so. Yeah, but I mean, certainly we've talked to many people, |
| 2:06.6 | many younger musicians, musicians younger than us, who list this as one of their main influences. |
| 2:11.8 | Right. But it's a little bit of an unusual thing because all that's true, what you just said, |
| 2:16.8 | but at the same time, I feel like it's not a record that's talked about a lot, not like continually. It's not, um, it's not sort of in the zeitgeist of great jazz albums of the last 40 years. Which is weird. I feel like, well, it is in a certain circle, but you're right. In general, in like the general jazz media, it's maybe not talked about enough. Yeah, maybe not. And, which maybe we'll get into a little bit, some of the primary actors in this recording, |
| 2:36.3 | namely, Winton Marcellus, I would say. |
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